Hi, I'm Alex
Developer at Lendable
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Dec 13, 2016
After one of our user data scripts caused one of our schedulers running on a cron to break, we decided to set up an alarm to tell us when it was happening and also set up a fix to heal...
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Nov 7, 2016
This post was originally available at: https://www.uvd.co.uk/blog/remote-pair-programming/ We’ve recently moved to flexitime at UVD, so we’ve been waiting for a good time to try remote pair programming. We thought we’d share how we do it. We hosted a user story...
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Sep 17, 2016
So, what is “hardening” exactly? Hardening is the process of limiting the attack surface of your application and the supporting services. If you want to learn more about what an attack surface is, OWASP have some great resources. The vast...
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Jul 16, 2016
Our testing environments are setup in the configuration “client-site.testing.our-company.com”, using AWS Route 53 to manage DNS records. This is hosted on our client’s AWS account, however our DNS is configured through Route 53 on our own account. Previously, we have...
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May 27, 2016
I was recently tasked with getting an SSL certificate for uvd.co.uk (or TLS I should say). We’ve used them on a few websites before which has worked great in the production environment, but we’ve always had ugly ‘insecure content’ warnings...
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Mar 10, 2016
I first heard about ‘message oriented software design’ at SymfonyLive back in September at Matthias Noback’s talk “Hexagonal Architecture”. A command bus consists of three parts: the command, which is essentially a message, the handler which processes the message and...
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